January 2002

Bok Tower Festival

The 17th International Carillon Festival at Bok Tower
Gardens in Lake Wales, Florida, February 23-March 3, 2002, will feature guest
carillonneurs Koen Van Assche (Belgium), Sjoerd Tamminga (The Netherlands), J.
Samuel Hammond (Duke University, Durham NC), Helen Hawley (Lawrence, KS), and
Bok Tower carillonneurs Milford Myhre and William De Turk. Events will include
daily recitals at 3 pm, a moonlight recital at 8 pm on Monday, February 25,
carillon and art exhibits, and non-carillon concerts.

Lloyd Holzgraf died November 11 in his Montecito, California
home at the age of 70. For 38 years he served as organist at First
Congregational Church of Los Angeles, where he was responsible for the design
of the great organ of 346 ranks, 265 stops, and 20,000 pipes.

Reuter Organ Company, Lawrence, Kansas


Trinity United Methodist Church, Wilmette, Illinois

GREAT

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June 24-26, 2001

Attendees of the 22nd International Organ and Church Music Institute at The University of Michigan enjoyed a rewarding three days devoted to "20th Century Music: Music of Alain, Messiaen, and Others."

Finney Chapel, Oberlin College's largest concert venue, was filled on September 28, 2001, for the inaugural public performance on the northern Ohio school's most recent new organ built in the 19th-century French symphonic tradition by leading American organ builders, the firm of C. B. Fisk.

The name Arthur C. Becker was familiar to the readers of THE
DIAPASON in the period of the 1930s to the 60s because of his many articles and
frequent notices of his activities. In addition to his accomplishments as an
organist and college administrator, Dr. Becker was an able composer who
composed much organ and liturgical music for St. Vincent de Paul Church in
Chicago, where he was organist and music director from 1918 to 1973.

The Eighth Biennial French Organ Music Seminar attracted 60
registrants for a commemoration of the centennial of the death of Aristide
Cavaillé-Coll. Hearing, playing, and studying the music written for the
great instruments of Paris, Rouen, and Toulouse formed the focal point of the
two-week schedule. French Classical and modern instruments at Versailles,
Chartres, Bordeaux, Cintegabelle, and Albi rounded out the itinerary.

Part 1: Human interest prevails in the first 33 years of the publication of The Diapason - 1909 to 1942